"Les Dieux Amies" by Mily Possoz, Portuguese - French, (1888-1967)

Drypoint in color, ca. 1940?, ed. 24/55, 8-1/4 x6-1/2, published by Marcel Guiot, Paris, with his blind stamp bottom margin, mat line from previous mount, two small cloth hinge remnants to top corners recto, signed, titled & numbered in pencil, on thick cream wove paper, the colors vibrant. After study at the Academie Julian and elsewhere, Possoz worked in Paris through most of the 1930's, developing a close friendship with Robert and Sonia Delunay. She is best known for the Art Deco style of her prints, influenced by synthetic cubsim. Possoz was one of the leading artists of Portuguese Modernism.